Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
April 2002
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Stefan Miltchev, Michael B. Greenwald, Jonathan M. Smith, and John Ioannidis, "Efficient Packet Monitoring for Network Management", . April 2002.
Abstract
Network monitoring is a vital part of modern network infrastructure management. Existing techniques either present a restricted view of network behavior and state, or do not efficiently scale to higher network speeds and heavier monitoring workloads. We present a novel architecture for programmable packet-level network monitoring that addresses these shortcomings. Our approach allows users to customize the monitoring function at the lowest possible level of abstraction to suit a wide range of monitoring needs: we use operating system mechanisms that result in a programming environment providing a high degree of flexibility, retaining fine-grained control over security, and minimizing the associated performance overheads. We present an implementation of this architecture as well as a set of experimental applications.
Keywords
network monitoring, active networking
Date Posted: 15 November 2004
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Copyright 2002 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2002 (NOMS 2002), pages 423-436.
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